Resolution of Intention - Renewal and Expansion - Civic Center Community Benefit District

Resolution

Passed

Resolution declaring the intention of the Board of Supervisors to renew and expand a property-based business improvement district known as the “Civic Center Community Benefit District” and levy a multi-year assessment on all parcels in the District; approving the management district plan, engineer’s report, and proposed boundaries map for the District; ordering and setting a time and place for a public hearing of the Board of Supervisors, sitting as a Committee of the Whole, on July 16, 2019, at 3:00 p.m.; approving the form of the Notice of Public Hearing and Assessment Ballot Proceeding, and Assessment Ballot; directing environmental findings; and directing the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to give notice of the public hearing and balloting, as required by law.

Ordinance amending the Planning Code to allow Arts Activities as a principally permitted use in the RCD (Regional Commercial District), to conditionally permit Nighttime Entertainment uses within the RCD in historic buildings and buildings that contribute to a historic district and to principally permit such uses in Article 10 Landmark Building No. 120 (St. Joseph’s Church at 1401 Howard Street), to exempt Nighttime Entertainment in the RCD from the 200-foot buffer requirement, and to require a Preservation, Rehabilitation and Maintenance Plan for uses within the Folsom Street Neighborhood Commercial Transit and RCD Districts; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; making findings of consistency with the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1; and adopting findings of public necessity, convenience, and general welfare under Planning Code, Section 302.

Hearing to examine the frequency and cause of "switchbacks" on the N-Judah, L-Taraval, T-Third, and K-Ingleside light rail lines, plans to address them, and the internal performance metrics more generally for these and other transit lines under the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA); and requesting SFMTA to report.